RESEARCH SCHOOL - ECOLE DE RECHERCHE
Thermodynamic Formalism: Modern Techniques in Smooth Ergodic Theory (2110)
Formalisme thermodynamique : Techniques modernes en théorie ergodique
Dates: 01-05 July 2019
Place: CIRM (Marseille Luminy, France)

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION

DESCRIPTION

The school will be based on courses and survey lectures covering the following topics:

(1) Introductory lectures on Thermodynamic Formalism
(2) Transfer operators and anisotropic Banach spaces
(3) Geometric zeta functions and Microlocal analysis
(4) Statistical Properties
(5) Gibbs measures and Geometry
(6) Weil-Petersson, Teichmüller geodesic flows, Translation surfaces
(7) Fractal Geometry

Mini-courses will include:

F. Paulin, "Rate of mixing for geodesic flows with Gibbs measures in negative curvature and trees"

F. Rodriguez Hertz, "Introduction to rigidity in hyperbolic dynamics"

C. Liverani, "Averaging and beyond for fast-slow hyperbolic systems"

F. Faure and M. Tsujii, "Micro-local methods in hyperbolic dynamics"

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Mark Pollicott (University of Warwick)
• Sandro Vaienti (Aix-Marseille Université & Université de Toulon)

PARTICIPANTS

• Viviane Baladi (CNRS - Sorbonne Université)
• Jérôme Buzzi (CNRS - Université Paris-Sud)
• Jean-René Chazottes (CNRS - Ecole polytechnique)
• Frédéric Faure (Université Grenoble Alpes)
• Gary Froyland (University of New South Wales)
• Nicolai Haydn (University of Southern California)
• Thomas Jordan (Bristol University)
• Carlangelo Liverani (University Roma Tor Vergata)
• Valerio Lucarini (University of Reading) 
• Frédéric Paulin (Université Paris-Sud)
• Federico Rodriguez Hertz (Penn State)
• Richard Sharp (University of Warwick)
• Dan Thompson (Ohio State University)
• Mike Todd (University of St Andrews)
• Masato Tsujii (Kyushu University)
• Mariusz Urbanski (University of North Texas)
• Hong-Kun Zhang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

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